Am Do, 4. Aug, 2016 um 11:32 schrieb Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>:
On 03.08.2016 21:17, Jonatan Schlag wrote:
Hi, I have a very strange problem with libvirt. I work on some machines with libvirt (Debian/ Arch Linux) and libvirt set the ownership of images file automatically to the qemu user / group for example on Arch Linux to nobody:kvm. So when I copy an image file with root and use I then with qemu, libvirt change the owner/ group to nobody:kvm. But I also compiled libvirt for a machine (gcc 4.9.4 glibc 2.12) and on this machine libvirt did not change the ownership of the image files which results in this error: libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: able-ticketing,seamless-migration=on -device qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,vram64_size_mb=0,vgamem_mb=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -msg timestamp=on 2016-08-03T18:19:47.494512Z qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/data/hdd1/libvirt/images/test.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0: Could not open '/data/hdd1/libvirt/images/test.img': Permission denied
Can you please share the debug logs? http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/DebugLogs Also, my initial suspect, before diving any deeper is that usually, when users compile libvirt on their own, they forget to set the correct prefix, therefore libvirt is looking for its config files NOT under /etc/libvirt but /usr/local/etc/ or whatever. BTW: is the daemon running under root? Michal

Hi,

The daemon runs under root.

I uploaded the debug logs to:

http://people.ipfire.org/~jschlag/1363864/1_libvirtd.log

The UID of the user nobody is 99, the GID of the group kvm is 1011.

I added my configure options to the bug report. 

Following the log the ownership is changed but why is the file still owned by root:root?

Regards Jonatan